I'm gonna drop this then get to sleep.
Yes - it's so much easier to hear you when the language isn't so hyped, thank you. But I tell you, I've never been one to believe what I read in the papers - I'm living through the Murdoch Era, remember. You're obviously a deep thinker, what do you make of the observation that anti-intellectualism is on the rise in America's political right?

Beat me to it!

Okay, thanks for clarifying.
It'll be hard to believe, but I mean this with no disrespect: you sound like a crazy person to me, this time. I know you're intelligent and articulate, but sometimes the conclusions you reach (Michigan Murders the Elderly!), and the assumptions you base them on, are absurd on their face to me. The rate of Covid deaths in the States is astronomically higher than just about everywhere, and you maintaining that it was the best possible outcome is just obviously wrong. But the victor writes the history, and you may well be proven right someday.
I don't say any of this with any malice, but I do wonder what it means. I'm intelligent and articulate too, but despite having more or less the same raw materials, we end up almost incomprehensibly far apart in our values - and I'm not sure how to effectively communicate with you, but it continues to feel important that I try.

You're saying that more Americans would have died if the US government had tried more to help?

The Covid numbers?

The right to choose doesn't mean you have to choose the worst system though lol. It always seems like the US is just stubborn - it's not about the health care, or the guns, or socialism or anything, it's about your right to tell people to get fucked when they suggest that there might be a better way

It goes both ways. Every meme site gets them unless someone sits there and picks them out (and gets called a fascist for doing it).
Fair point about anti-intellectualism having much more traction among conservatives though.

Free all the willies!

Nice one, thanks :)

Shopped

It's true, I think. You'll forgive him anything just because it's him. That's.. gross and scary if it's true.

He really can do no wrong, huh?

haha, sure, fair point. It's all relative, huh?

They're five feet away

Don't forget the sock!

Haha, that would be an eye opener. I guess the question is, are you so likely to want to continue sucking your own dick, or to suck more dicks than you're currently sucking, enough to put in the hard yards.
Or you can blame that it's upside down